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Discovering Masterpieces – Symphonie Fantastique

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Video Director: Angelika Stiehler - Artist: Berliner Philharmoniker & Mariss Jansons - Producer: EuroArts Music International - Conductor: Mariss Jansons - Composer: Hector Berlioz - Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
St. Irene Church, Istanbul | 29 min | 2007 | TV-G

Discovering Masterpieces – Symphonie Fantastique

Watch the series ‘Discovering Masterpieces’, your audio-visual concert guide to the great masterpieces of classical music. The series brings you 20 half-hour documentaries on 20 classical masterpieces: acclaimed experts, famous soloists and outstanding conductors take you on a journey back to the time and place of composition. In today’s documentary, Hector Berlioz’ ‘Symphonie Fantastique’. This ‘Fantastic Symphony’ is widely regarded as one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period. Leonard Bernstein once called it “the first musical expedition into psychedelia” because of its hallucinatory and dream-like nature. The German musicologist Wulf Konold describes the idea behind and the realization of this fascinating work.

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